2010年7月6日星期二

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Six killed and 37 wounded in Iraq pilgrimage attack (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 01:41 PM PDT

Iraqi Army soldiers stand guard as Shiite pilgrims head to the Imam Moussa Kadhim shrine, for the annual commemoration of the saint's death in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)Reuters - Bombs and mortar rounds killed six Shi'ites and wounded 37 others on Tuesday as they made a pilgrimage to a shrine in northern Baghdad to commemorate the death of a medieval Shi'ite holy man, police said.


AP Interview: Odierno eyes UN forces for Iraq (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 01:30 PM PDT

U.S. Army Gen. Raymond Odierno, speaks during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. The top American military commander in Iraq said that U.N. peacekeeping forces may need to protect disputed territories in the nation's north if tensions between Kurds and Arabs haven't eased by the time U.S. troops leave in 2011. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - The top American military commander in Iraq said Tuesday that U.N. peacekeeping forces may need to replace departing U.S. troops in the nation's oil-rich north if a simmering feud between Arabs and minority Kurds continues through 2011.


US soldier charged over leak of Iraq shootings video (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 12:55 PM PDT

This frame grab image from classified US military gun camera footage, shot from a US army Apache helicopter and released by whistleblower website Wikileaks.org in April 2010, shows a group of men in a Baghdad street just before the group was fired upon by the helicopter. An American soldier suspected of leaking the video footage has been charged, the military said on Tuesday.(AFP/Wikileaks.org/File)AFP - An American soldier suspected of leaking video footage of a US Apache helicopter strike in Iraq in which around a dozen people were gunned down in broad daylight has been charged, the army said on Tuesday.


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,411 (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 12:26 PM PDT

AP - As of Tuesday, July 6, 2010, at least 4,411 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

US soldier linked to Iraq attack video charged (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 11:37 AM PDT

This frame grab image taken from a video shot from a U.S. army Apache helicopter gun-sight, posted at Wikileaks.org and confirmed as authentic by a senior U.S. military official, shows a group of men in the streets of the New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad just prior to being fired upon by the helicopter July 12, 2007.  In a series of online chats Bradley Manning told of leaking classified diplomatic reports, along with this secret video, to the whistleblower website Wikileaks.org. (AP Photo/Wikileaks.org)AP - An American soldier suspected of leaking a military video of an attack on unarmed men in Iraq was charged with multiple counts of mishandling and leaking classified data and putting national security at risk, the U.S. Army said in a statement Tuesday.


Soldier held in WikiLeaks case is charged (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 09:36 AM PDT

Reuters - The U.S. military has filed charges against a soldier detained in connection with the leak of a classified video showing a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Iraq, officials said on Tuesday.

Turkey says PKK attacks may harm ties with Iraq and U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 09:09 AM PDT

Reuters - Turkey's military and civilian leaders signaled growing frustration with the United States and Iraq Tuesday over their role in the fight against Kurdish rebels after a new attack on a Turkish base killed 15.

Spanish reporter's Iraq death probe reopened (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 07:09 AM PDT

AP - Spain's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the reopening of a probe into the death of a Spanish journalist who was hit by U.S. tank fire in Iraq in 2003.

Iraq's widows: a grim legacy for postwar Iraq (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 09:00 PM PDT

In this photo taken June 12, 2010, Iraqi widows and their children visit the Valley of Peace cemetery in Najaf in southern Iraq. . Three decades of wars, massacres and sectarian killing have left Iraq with as many as a million widows, by Iraqi government count. It estimates some 100,000 have lost husbands since the U.S.-led invasion, and the postwar government is struggling to meet their needs. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP - Three decades of wars, massacres and sectarian killings have left Iraq with as many as a million widows, by Iraqi government count. Hameeda Ayed is one of them.


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